Amy Winehouse died of bulimia and not from drug abuse, says brother

Few weeks before her 28th birthday, Amy Winehouse died from alcohol poisoning and was found dead at her home in Camden in July 2011. On ...

Amy Jade Winehouse, born on September 14, 1983 in Enfeild, London, shot to fame in 2006 with Back to Black. Embattled with addiction to alcohol ...

A 10-year-old Amy formed a short-lived amateur rap group named Sweet 'n' Sour, while at 12 she was expelled from Sylvia Young Theatre School in ...

Island Records, under the management company 19 Management, released her first work, Frank, on October 23, 2003, winning her two Brit Awards nominations in 2004.

The critical acclaim that followed the release of Back to Black in October 2006 made her an international star.

In 2006, Amy appeared to be drunk on Channel 4's The Charlotte Church Show.

Amy Winehouse' Back to Black

In February 2007, she won best British female at the Brit Awards and, four months later, picked up Song of the Year at the Mojo ...

On August 7, 2007 Amy faints after two back-to-back performances at the Virgin Festival in Baltimore and Lollapalooza in Chicago.

While reps claimed it was because of 'extreme exhaustion,' the previous night she had to have her stomach pumped at London's University College Hospital for ...

Amy Winehouse's older brother Alex has claimed that it was an eating disorder and not her addictions that killed the singer two years ago.

In his first full-length interview, the 33-year-old told the Observer Magazine that his sister's long battle with bulimia "left her weaker, and more susceptible," the Guardian reported.

He said that she would have died eventually, the way she was going, but what really killed her was the bulimia.

An inquest recorded a verdict of misadventure after finding that she had 416mg of alcohol per decilitre in her blood - more than five times the legal drink-drive limit and enough to make her comatose and depress her respiratory system.

According to her brother, who was speaking to mark the opening of an exhibition dedicated to his sister's life at the Jewish Museum in Camden, north London, her system had been fatally weakened by years of bulimia, a disease in which bouts of extreme overeating are followed by depression and self-induced vomiting.

He added that had she not have had an eating disorder, she would have been physically stronger. He revealed that Amy had developed bulimia in her late teens and had never shaken off the illness. (ANI)